FYI Schedule of Upcoming Releases, Jan. 27, 2022
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace. Notables with new albums include North Mississippi All-Stars, Eels, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Urge Overkill, Anaïs Mitchell, Ghostly Kisses, PJ Harvey, Jethro Tull, Maddie & Tae, and Kimberly Morgan York. A strong week for Canadians includes Jann Arden, Sweet Alibi, Our Lady Peace, Sam Drysdale, Mother Mother, Lou Canon (pictured), Joe McLeod, Knights of the Mystic Eye, and The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer.
By Kerry Doole
Covid-19 has impacted many facets of the music biz, but new releases and reissues continue apace, and have increased after the holiday break. Notables with new albums include North Mississippi All-Stars, Eels, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Urge Overkill, Anaïs Mitchell, Ghostly Kisses, PJ Harvey, Jethro Tull, Maddie & Tae, and Kimberly Morgan York.
A strong week for Canadians includes Jann Arden, Sweet Alibi, Our Lady Peace, Sam Drysdale, Mother Mother, Lou Canon, Knights of the Mystic Eye, and The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer.
January
24: Knights of the Mystic Eye - Cosmic Top Secret (Bandcamp)
26: Sam Drysdale - Testarossa (Slaight Music / Fontana North)
26: Scandal - Mirror
26: Lou Canon - Reimagine The Body (Paper Bag Records)
26: SUGARFUNGUS - Letting Go, Moving Still
27: David Jameson - Talk Dark Pines
27: jackie - Hey Angel
28: Eels - Extreme Witchcraft (PIAS/E Works Records)
28: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail - digital. April 1 physical release (New West)
28: Black Flower -Magma’ ( Sdban Ultra)
28: Joe McLeod - Cloud Berries In Alaska
28: Roedelius & Story - 4 Hands (Erased Tapes)
28: Adam Shoenfeld -All the Birds Sing ( Lozen Entertainment Group/Copperline)
28: Jann Arden - Descendant (UMC)
28: Kulick -'Everyone I Know Will Die
28: Ghostly Kisses - Heaven, Wait (Akira Records)
28: The Temptations - Temptations (UMC)
28: Maddie & Tae - Through The Madness (UMC)
28: Dianthus - Realms (Deko Ent.)
28: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (UMC)
28: Cat Dowling - Animals (FIFA Records)
28: North Mississippi Allstars - Set Sail (New West) LP and CD on April 1
28: Russ Rankin - Come Together Fall Apart (SBÄM Records)
28: The Sad Tomorrows - S/T (Don Giovanni Records)
28: Dan Weber - The Way The River Goes
28: Viguela - La Manera Artesana (ARC Music)
28: Sweet Alibi - Make A Scene
28: Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines II
28: St. Paul & The Broken Bones -The Alien Coast (ATO Records)
28: John Lodge -The Royal Affair and After
28: Black Flower - Magma (Sdban Ultra)
28: Toxpack - Zwanzig.Tausend Volt (Napalm)
28: Anaïs Mitchell - S/T
28: Urge Overkill - Oui (Omnivore Recordings)
28: Toxpack - ZWANZIG.TAUSEND VOLT (Napalm Records)
28: Kimberly Morgan York - Found Yourself a Lady
28: Adam Shoenfeld - All the Birds Sing (Lozen Entertainment Group/Copperline)
28: Pinegrove - 11:11 (Rough Trade)
28: Mother Mother - INSIDE (Warner Music Canada)
28: The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer - Live At The King Eddy
28: The Furniture - S/T (Spanish Prayers)
28: Jethro Tull -The Zealot Gene (Inside Out Music)
28: Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story 4 Hands ( Erased Tapes)
29: Villager - Frontier
31: Juho & the Jellyfish from Jupiter -Quarantine Diaries, Chapter I
31: Ruby Singh - Vox.Infold (Bandcamp)
February
1: Eve Michelson -Evolutive Electro
3: Almalé- Hixa Mia
4: Ryan Kennedy - Libertine
4: Manuel the Band - Things That Can't Be Seen
4: Micki Free - Turquoise Blue (Dark Idol Music)
4: Good Morning Bedlam - Lulu
4: Carl Schilde EUROPOP (Fun In The Church)
4: Marshall Crenshaw - #447 (Shiny-Tone label via Megaforce)
4: The Reds, Pinks & Purples - Summer at Land's End ( Slumberland)
4: Persefone- metanoia (Napalm Records)
4: B.J. Thomas - Love Songs & Lost Treasures ( Real Gone Music)
4: AV (Ann Vriend)- Everybody Matters
4: Jean-Michel Blais -aubades
4: Black Country, New Road -Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune)
4: Jami Templeton - The Shape of my Heart
4: Good Morning Bedlam Lulu
4: Gene MacLellan - S/T
4: Animal Collective- Time Skiffs (Domino)
4: Karl Strømme - Song Dust
4: Big Kill - Big Kill Future
4: Persefone - metanoia (Napalm)
4: Jana Pochop -The Astronaut
4: EXEK - Advertise Here (Castle Face Records)
4: Charbonneau x Amato - Synth Works Vol. 2 ( Backward Music)
4: Silent Skies - Nectar
4 Jack Barksdale - Death of a Hummingbird
4: Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory (MNRK Heavy)
4: Paul McCartney and Wings - Wild Life 50th anniversary vinyl reissue (UMe/Universal Music Canada)
4: Hembree - It’s a Dream!
4: Muscadine Bloodline -Dispatch to 16th Ave.
4: Scott Hardware -Ballad of a Tryhard (Telephone Explosion Records)
4: Sam Weber - Get Free (Sonic Unyon)
4: Alai K - Kila Mara (On the Corner Records)
4: Reddog - Booze, Blues and Southern Grooves (Survival South Records)
4: Me Rex - Pterodactyl (Big Scary Monsters)
4: Bastille - Give Me The Future (UMC)
4: Eleon - Epoch
4: Still Insane - Black Sheep EP
7: AETHEREUS - Leiden (The Artisan Era)
10: Ombiigizi - Sewn Back Together (A&C)
11: Trentemøller -Memoria (In My Room)
11: Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador)
11: We Are In Transit (WAIT) - The End of Noise (The Artisan Era)
11: Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (4AD)
11: Kevin Hearn -There and Then: Solo Piano Improvisations
11: Anne Elise Hastings And Her Revolving Cast Of Characters -Unmasking A Confidence Trickster
11: La Armada - Anti-Colonial Vol. 2 (Thousand Islands Records)
11: Hot Flash Heat Wave - Sportswear
11: Blonder - Knoxville House (Cool World Records)
11: Pretty Archie - S/T (Curve Music)
11: Mild Orange - Looking For Space
11: Big Al and the Heavyweights - Love One Another (VizzTone)
11: Allison Moorer - Wish For You (Autotelic Records via Thirty Tigers)
11: Buke and Gase and Rahrah Gabor - S/T (Brassland)
11: Foxes - The Kick ( [PIAS] Recordings)
11: Voivod - Synchro Anarchy (Century Media Records)
11: Curtis Godino Presents The Midnight Wishers - S/T (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)
11: Night Shop - Forever Night (Dangerbird Records)
11: Mild Orange - Looking For Space
11: The Rumjacks - Brass for Gold
11: Slash ft Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - 4 (Gibson Records/BMG)
11: Rob Burger Marching With Feathers (Western Vinyl)
12: Carl Weingarten - Stop Me Try (Multiphase Records)
15: Ben Auld - Lemongrass (Earth Libraries)
15: Church of Trees-Pish Posh
18: White Lies - As I Try Not To Fall Apart [PIAS]
18: Manic Sinners - King Of The Badlands (Frontiers Music Srl)
18: Lavender Country - Blackberry Rose (Don Giovanni Records)
18: Spirits Of Fire -Embrace The Unknown
18: Mike Zito - Blues for the Southside ( Gulf Coast Records)
18: Louisiana Red &Bob Corritore - Tell Me 'Bout It (VizzTone)
18: Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Memory’s Fool (Soft Abuse)
18: The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets - deluxe anniversary edition(Trust Records)
18: Basement Revolver - Embody (Sonic Unyon Records)
18: Matt Pike - Pike vs. the Automaton (MNRK Heavy)
18: Catcher The Fat Of A Broken Heart
18: Howless -To Repel Ghosts
18: Katie Tupper - Towards The End (A&C)
18: Del McCoury -Almost Proud
18: Howless - To Repel Ghosts (Static Blooms Records)
18: Dana Cooper - I Can Face The Truth
18: Nash Albert - Yet
18: George Alice -Growing Pains
18: Eric Bolander- Can't Get There From Here.
18: Lumberob -Language Learner (Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings)
18: Elephant Stone- Le voyage de M. Lonely dans la lune
18: Beshken - Pantomime (MATH Interactive)
18: Catcher - The Fat Of A Broken Heart
18: Spirits Of Fire - Embrace The Unknown
18: Dagoba - By Night (Napalm Records)
21: The Infamous Stringdusters - Toward the Fray
22: Sylvia- Nature Child – A Dreamer's Journey (Red Pony Records)
22: Hugs of the Sky – Tangerine Boredom Delusion
23: Uma Bloo - Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)
23: NOBRO - Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar (Dine Alone Records)
24: Julia Blair - Better Out Than In
25: Bambara - Love Is On My Mind (Wharf Cat Records)
25: Richard Evans - Sentinel (Cold Star Media)
25: Deathbell - A Nocturnal Calling
25: Robert Glasper - Blavk Radio 111
25: Placebo - Never Let Me Go
25: Swamp Dogg - I Need A Job... So I Can Buy More Autotune
25: Hammerfall - Hammer of Dawn (Napalm Records)
25: Vavrious Artists - Euphoria Season 2 Soundtrack (Interscope Records)
25: Tears For Fears -THE TIPPING POINT (Concord Records)
25: Eamon McGrath -Bells of Hope (Saved By Vinyl)
25: Birds of Play - Murmurations Vol. 2
25: Sasami -Squeeze (Domino)
25: Basia Bulat -The Garden - digital. Physical March 25 (Secret City Records)
25: Kyle Morgan - Younger At Most Everything (Team Love Records)
25: Johnny Marr- Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG)
25: Avril Lavigne -Love Sux
25: The Wooks - Flyin’ High
25: Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful ( Fat Possum)
25: Anne Elise Hastings Unmasking A Confidence Trickster
25: Deserta Every Moment, Everything You Need (Felte)
25: Left Banke -Strangers On A Train (Omnivore Recordings)
25: Long Range Hustle - I am alive, but only if you say I am
25: Wolfrik - Clones (Thousand Islands Records)
25: VHS Collection - Drive (Tiger Tone/PIAS)
25: Tankard - For A Thousand Beers box set (Noise Records)
25: Caroline - S/T (Rough Trade)
25: Ellemetue - Les crucifiés figuratifs (Bravo musique)
25: Jon Tyler Wiley -The Longing
25: Yonder Mountain String Band - Get Yourself Outside
March
4: The Dead South - Easy Listening for Jerks, Parts I & II (Six Shooter)
4: Nilüfer Yanya - Painless ( ATO Records)
4: Matt Andersen - House to House (Sonic Records)
4: Guided By Voices - Crystal Nuns Cathedral
4: Rick Holmstrom - Get It!
4: Erinn Peet Lukes - EPL
4: Stromae - Multitude (Darkroom/Interscope Records)
4: Fieh -In The Sun In The Rain (Jansen Records)
4: Peach Pit -From 2 to 3
4: Marianne Faithfull - Vagabond Ways reissue
4:Just A Season -Leave To Come Home
4: Jack Barksdale - Death of a Hummingbird
4: Ivy Ryann - A Nonaggressive Extreme Violation of Boundaries
4: Oh Hiroshima - Myriad (Napalm Records)
4: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars ( Next Door Records)
4: Sarah Hiltz - Calm Fury
4: Fieh - In The Sun In The Rain (Jansen Records)
4: Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs - External Combustion (BMG)
4: Kristine Leschper -The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (ANTI- Records)
4: Landon Lloyd Miller-- Light Shines Through (Twin Mesa)
4: Kenny ‘Blues Boss” Wayne- Blues From Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon (Stony Plain Records)
4: Crowbar - Zero And Below, (via MNRK Heavy)
4: Ceramic Animal -Sweet Unknown ( Easy Eye Sound.)
4: System Exclusive (ft. Matt Jones) - S/T (Castle Face Records)
4: Thus Owls - Who Would Hold You If The Sky Betrayed Us?
4: Kristine Leschper - The Opening, Or Closing Of A Door (Anti-)
4: Lammping -Stars We Lost, (We Are Busy Bodies)
4: Band of Horses - Things Are Great (BMG)
4: Maylee Todd - Maloo (Stone Throw Records)
4: Letting Up Despite Great Faults -IV
10: Sam Jr. - S/T (A&C)
10: Alex Spencer - Crawl'
11: Franz Ferdinand -Hits To The Head (Domino)
11: New Horizon - Gate Of The Gods (Frontiers Music Srl)
11: Jenny Hval - Classic Objects (4AD)
11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
11: PJ Harvey The Hope Six Demolition Project – Demos
11: The Lazy Eyes - Songbook (Lunatic / The Orchard)
11: Junk Drawer - The Dust Has Come To Stay (Art For Blind Records)
11: Rex Orange County - Who Cares? (Sony)
11: Jameszoo - Blind
11: Arkaik - Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts
11: Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts (BMG)
11: Rust n' Rage One For The Road
11: Paul Waring and His Band of Blues Men - It's a Mad Mad Bad Dad World (PieHole Records)
11: Apollo Ghosts – Pink Tiger (You’ve Changed Records)
11: The Weather Station - How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (Next Door Records)
11: Widowspeak - The Jacket (Captured Tracks)
11: Broadcast - three albums (Warp Records)
11: Brock Davis - A Song Waiting To Be Sung (Raintown Records)
11: Angel Forrest - Angel’s 11 vol. II
11: Ghost - Impera ( Loma Vista Recordings)
11: Konvent - Call Down The Sun (Napalm Records)
11: Tony Price MARK VI (Telephone Explosion Records)
11: Hoodoo Gurus - Chariot of the Gods
16: Jerry Leger -Nothing Pressing (Latent Recordings)
18: Lisa LeBlanc - Chiac Disco
18: Midlake - For The Sake of Bethel Woods (ATO)
18: Blue States - World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)
18: The Duke Robillard Band - They Called It Rhythm & Blues (Stony Plain Records)
18: Chip Z'Nuff - Perfectly Imperfect (Frontiers Music Srl)
18: Space Of Variations, ... Imago (Napalm Records)
18: Bogdan Raczynski - Addle (Planet Mu)
18: April March - In Cinerama (Omnivore)
18: Sabertooth Swing – Delta Bound (Slammin' Media)
18: Steve Dawson - Gone, Long Gone (Black Hen)
18: Son House - Forever On My Mind (Easy Eye Sound)
18: Jamie McLean Band - Paradise Found (Harmonized Records)
18: Donovan Woods - Big Hurt Boy EP ( End Times Music)
18: Mattiel - Georgia Gothic (ATO Records)
18: Blue States - World Contact Day (Memphis Industries)
18: Agathodaimon - The Seven (Napalm Records)
18: SheWolf - S/T (,Frontiers Music Srl)
23: Uma Bloo- Don't Drive Into the Smoke ( Earth Libraries)
25: Jason Erie -Tiny Fires (Wirebird Records)
25: Bakers Eddy - Love Boredom Bicycles
25: Bomber - Nocturnal Creatures (Napalm Records)
25: The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys - Never Slow Down (Smithsonian Folkways)
25: Superpoze - Nova Cardinale
25: Capricorn - For The Restless (Wild Kingdom)
25: Jay Feelbender - Enter The Mirror
25: Kindsight - Swedish Punk (Rama Lama Records)
25: Proper. - The Great American Novel (Father/Daughter)
25: Tom Rogerson - Retreat To Bliss (Western Vinyl)
25: Sunglaciers -Subterranea ( Mothland)
25: Albert Castiglia -I Got Love (Gulf Coast Records)
25: Avalon Tassonyi - S/T ( Vain Mina Records)
25: Maren Morris - Humble Quest (Columbia Nashville)
25: Aldous Harding -Warm Chris (4AD)
25: Destroyer-Labyrinthitis (Merge Records)
25: Åskväder - Fenix
25: The Mary Veils - Esoteric Hex (PNKSLM Recordings)
25: Ex-Vöid - Bigger Than Before (Don Giovanni Records)
25: Don't Worry - Remorseless Swing (Specialist Subject)
25: Fucked Up - Do All Words Can Do (Matador)
April
1: No Frills - Downward Dog
1: Misfire -Sympathy For The Ignorant
1: Thomas Rhett - Where We Started (Valory)
1: P'tit Belliveau -Un homme et son piano (Bonsound)
1: Cassidy Mann - If It’s Not Forever (End Times Music)
1: PUP - The Unravelling of PupTheBand (Little Dipper/UMC)
1: Lords Of The Trident - The Offering'
3: Kuolemanlaakso - Kuusumu
6: Melted Wings - Cheer for the Deer
8: B. Knox - Far From Folk
8: Wet Leg - S/T (Domino)
8: Papercuts - Past Life Regression (Slumberland)
8: Riot Antigone - S/T
8: Dillon Vanders - Wildfires
8: Envy Of None - S/T ( Kscope)
8: Michelle Willis - Just One Voice (GroundUP Music)
8: Joe Satriani The Elephants of Mars (earMUSIC)
8: Jesse Mac Cormack - Solo (Secret City Records)
8: Lucius - Second Nature (Dine Alone)
8: Dahlia Sleeps - Overflow
8: RIP Pop Mutant - Fluxus Pop
8: Pavement -Terror Twilight : Farewell Horizontal - 4LP/2CD Deluxe reissue (Matador)
12: Ariane Moffatt - 1969
15: Fozzy - Boombox
15: Urferd - Resan (Black Lodge Records)
15: Sophia Bel -Anxious Avoidant (Bonsound)
15: Altameda - Born Losers (Pheromone/Missing Piece)
15: GRAE - Whiplash
15: Stone Broken - Revelation (Spinefarm)
22: Samantha Savage Smith - Fake Nice
22: Abigail Lapell - Stolen Time (Outside Music)
22: Old Crow Medicine Show - Paint This Town (ATO Records)
22: Dear Rouge - Spirit (Pheromone Recordings)
27: The Mellons - - Introducing... The Mellons! (Earth Libraries)
29: Gus Englehorn - Dungeon Master (Secret City Records)
29: Bloc Party - Alpha Games ( Infectious / BMG)
29: Melody’s Echo Chamber - Emotional Eternal (Domino)
29: Deaf Lingo -Lingonberry
29: Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote (Warner)
29: Pierre Kwenders -José Louis and the Paradox of Love (Arts & Crafts)
29: Blossoms - Ribbon Around The Bomb
May
6: Three Days Grace - Explosions (RCA Records)
6: Gnarfunkel -Gnarnia
13: Craig David - 22
13: Famyne - The Ground Below (Svart Records)
13: Victor Mucho - Moonlight in Visby
20: Zinny Zan - Lullabies for the Masses (Wild Kingdom)
20: Soak - If I Never Know You Like This Again (Rough Trade)
27: Rip Room - Alight and Resound (Spartan Records)
June
3: Guy Blue - Arms Wide
3: GWAR -The New Dark Ages - CD and Digital (Sept. 16 on Vinyl and Cassette) ( Pit Records)
3: The Bombadils - Dear Friend
10: George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (Columbia Records)
July
8: Blind Channel - Lifestyles of the Sick & Dangerous (Century Media Records)
Canadian artists marked in red